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Various areas in Philippine capital Metro Manila received bomb threats after a grenade went off early Friday morning in the suburb town of Makati, police officials said.
Employees of the Manila City Hall and an office building in Makati received bomb threats through phone calls, the Philippine Daily Inquirer on-line news quoted Superintendent Ernesto Ibay, chief of the Western Police District's special operations group, as saying.
An anonymous caller also threatened to blow off an office building's fifth floor where the Manila Regional Trial Court locates, the report said, adding that occupants of these buildingswere safely evacuated after bomb experts scoured the vicinity.
A plastic bag believed containing explosives founded in a Manila church forced hundreds of worshippers to flee early Friday.The box was found to contain personal belongings that could have been left by a churchgoer.
Earlier Friday, a grenade exploded on a flyover in Makati, the center for the country's financial industry, damaging a passing van. Another grenade was found not far from the explosion site.
(Xinhua News Agency October 18,2002)
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